Thanks a bunch, Ath, I appreciate that, some comments:
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As I don't have an iLiad yet, it's difficult to evaluate how well it works on that device. All I can do is look at the pages on a PC screen. 100% size looks too small (though the iLiad resolution hopefully fixes that), so I use 120%.
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If you look at the photos I attached it can give you an idea as to how it works out, but it's basically a normal sized font on a typical book, the iLiad's resolution
does fix it, the books I've read on pc have to have larger than 10pt to be comfortable.
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Word spacing seems to be the biggest problem. Either ragged right + manual tweaking of the worst remaining places to even things out, or keep justification but do automatic hyphenation run, possibly followed by proof-reading to check that it didn't end up too badly.
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I've always liked full justification, so what exactly is "automatic hyphenation"? I'll have to google that.
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Para indent feels a tad too large, and pages with much dialogue feel restless (and in a few places a very short preceding line looks odd). Perhaps smaller indent: 1 em (i.e. body size)?
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Hmmm... you might be right, I'll fiddle with the indent, it's set at 5mm right now.
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There are some places with spaces after em dashes ... should probably be closed up. (I bet there are a few with space before, too). And there are one or two quotations inside quotations where the outer double quote needs a hair space to set off the immediately following inner single quote (p. 125, l. 2
for instance). And one or two places where small caps probably should be used (italics in letter text (p. 5, l. 12: But I _must_ have ...)
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Ah, the em dashes and the spaces were worrying me! I wasn't sure if they carried a space or not, I meant to look that up too, the text came with "--" which I changed to a short dash, but they all had a space after them, and the long dashes too.
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Further tweaking is possible, but until word spacing is decent, I don't think it matters that much. (E.g. vertical ellipses, poetry, letters, perhaps some added tracking of all caps words, etc.)
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LOL, ok, I'll get back to you then.
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And I have a nagging feeling that the typeface really needs more space between lines ... perhaps it's an effect of the already wide word spacing. Century Schoolbook is fairly wide already, and that width needs to be balanced. I wonder how this would look in Georgia ...
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Hmmm... I like Century quite a lot, but you're right that I found it a bit tight in some cases (not all the time, though) when I actually read the book on the iLiad... I'll have a look at Georgia, or at opening up a little.
Thanks again for taking the time to review my file, much appreciated. Most people just say "ummm, nice" or "maybe a little larger" and that's it... same thing happens to my husband with his icons, he only gets a full critical review from me, and it helps him improve.
